jolie laide

jolie laide

I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.

7.19.2006


He said "You are beautiful, I wish I had a camera."
I handed him my camera phone.

3 Comments:

Blogger ttractor said...

hah! if I had $1 for every time I have heard that, I could buy a spare pair! well, ok, maybe just one. But still...

8:13 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Ah - you are heartbrakingly beautiful

body - soul - mind

12:45 AM  
Blogger ttractor said...

thank you r-m. I was entirely uncomfortable having my picture taken, as I always am. Because I think I am funny-looking. Not ugly, just, not usual, and photos tend to not come out well at all.

4:05 PM  

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